Wednesday, March 23. 2005

I just started the beta-tester subproject of grml. Every 2-3 weeks I'll provide a current devel-snapshot to grml-developers and beta-testers so I get feedback from people using different software and hardware than me. If you think you could help the grml-team you are welcomed to join the grml beta-testers.

Wednesday, March 23. 2005

I nearly forgot to mention the developer-meeting at beginning of march 2005. Several grml-developers have been on Chemnitzer LinuxTag 2005. Some us of met each other for the first time in reallife. :-)

Monday, March 21. 2005

As I mentioned on grml-devel I've put a devel-release online today. It uses 2.6.11-grml with full unionfs-support. I've had some problems with unionfs ('cp skipping file ... as it was replaced while being copied') but could fix this via using a current snapshot. In the next few days I'll implement the missing stuff in grml-x, do some more quality assurance and work on the installer (grml2hd) with Jimmy.

Tuesday, March 15. 2005

I now have a grml-ISO running with unionfs, now it's possible to run 'apt-get install foobar' when running from CD. :-)

I had to use some hacks (thanks to the debug-bootparam ;-)) to get unionfs working. But it shouldn't be that much work to make it more elegant and working smooth. ;-) If I can handle it a devel-release might be available at the weekend.

Some other patches are waiting for integration (reiser4, orinoco-rfmon-dragorn,...). Some of them aren't ready for 2.6.11 but the kernel should be useful for testing already at this stage of development. I'll test it on my development machines, if everything works fine so far I'll integrate the kernel into the grml-chroot so I can provide an updated devel-ISO.

The package lgtoclnt available at olivier-lemaire.org would require 35.2MB of space - a lot too much to add it to grml. Maybe someone could create/provide "a smaller version"? Does anyone of you know/use LegatoClient?

Thursday, March 3. 2005

We planned to arrive at Chemnitzer LinuxTag 2005 on 4th of March bringing grml-shirts with us. The producer of the shirts was at hospital, but as it looks like it might work anyway ('last-minute action'). So grml-devel-guys: chances to get a shirt in Chemnitz are not that bad. ;-)